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We've been pretty impressed by Mozilla's powerful HTML5-based phone OS, Boot to Gecko, which can do anything from send messages to play Cut the Rope with the equivalent of web apps and bookmarks. A similar project is WebAPI, an attempt by Mozilla to help developers standardize web content to...

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Thirty-one. That’s the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners. Thirty-one months is just barely...

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Google announced Tuesday morning that it has acquired Quickoffice, a suite of mobile apps for iOS and Android focused on office-related productivity. The deal gives Google an established document viewing and editing platform at a critical competitive juncture. Microsoft appears reluctant to extend its productivity powerhouse Office to other mobile...

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It looks like webOS isn't going quietly into the mobile OS retirement home. While its journey to open-source continues, an eager cabal of developers, fans and designers have decided to reignite the ill-fated operating system under the banner of Phoenix International Communications. Focusing its efforts on transporting open webOS...

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Looks like Bill Veghte is being groomed for CEO Meg Whitman's job whenever she decides to vacate it. Today the company named him COO. HP's board promised that its next CEO would be promoted from within -- which is something that many long-time employees and investors wanted to hear. But HP's...

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HP CEO Meg Whitman has one thing to smile about: The Enyo team is not leaving for Google. Photo: tracie7779/Flickr HP has confirmed that it has lost some “key members” of the team overseeing Enyo, a framework for developing HTML5 applications that grew up alongside the company’s ill-fated webOS mobile...

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HP’s open source webOS team, known as Enyo, will reportedly be leaving the company and joining Google, according to The Verge. The computer giant in December announced its failed webOS mobile operating system would move to an open-source model under the name Enyo, with version 1.0 slated for release in...

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In yet another warning of just how much HP doesn't have a clue about mobile, most of the team responsible for HP's Enyo project are moving on -- to Google, the Verge reports. This includes the project's leader, Matthew McNulty, says The Verge. Enyo was one of the open source projects...

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The main coders working on HP’s Enyo — the HTML5 application framework first seen in the HP TouchPad — have jumped ship and are headed to Google, the Verge reports. This puts a huge dent in HP’s plan to open source webOS, which admittedly was weak from the start....